Tokyo Music Competition
KAMEI Yuto
Clarinet
Born in: Aichi Prefecture, Japan
2nd place (Top prize) , and Audience Award, Wind Section, The 19th Tokyo Music Competition 2021
Musical Study Experiences
March 2014 Graduated from the Music Course at Aichi Prefectural Meiwa Senior High School
March 2018 Graduated from the Department of Instrumental Music, the Faculty of Music at Tokyo University of the Arts
September 2018 Joined the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra
Teachers
Previously, studied under ASAI Takako, INOUE Takashi, ITO Kei, and KAMEI Yoshinobu.
Musical Careers
| 2018 | Finalist, Clarinet Category, the 87th Music Competition of Japan |
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| 2019 | 3rd Place and Audience Award, Wind Section, the 17th Tokyo Music Competition 2nd Place, Clarinet Category, the 30th Japan Woodwind Competition |
| 2021 | 2nd Place, the 10th Japan Clarinet Competition 2nd Place (Top Prize) and Audience Award, Wind Section, the 19th Tokyo Music Competition |
Further Activities
Currently, Kamei is a member of the Narmen Clarinet Ensemble.
He became a recipient of the Aoyama Music Foundation Scholarship and the short term overseas training grant of the Hironao Seki Memorial Culture and Arts Foundation in 2017.
Repertoire
My major repertoire includes: concertos written by Mozart, Weber, Copland, Nielsen, and Spohr; chamber music in forms ranging from duo to quintet.
I have also been actively working on contemporary pieces. As to ensembles, I am familiar with performing in clarinet quartet and wind quintet.